Secured a gift fund of $50,000
from HERE, a Nokia company, and lead a research collaboration with Dr. Junzhou
Huang from University of Texas at Arlington on sensor data mining and machine
learning, 2014

Secured a research contract of 100,000
Euro from Nokia and lead a research collaboration with Dr. Junzhou Huang from
University of Texas at Arlington on computer vision and image processing, 2014

Secured a research contract of 10,000
Euro per deliverable from Nokia and lead a research collaboration with Dr.
Ruigang Yang from University of Kentucky on 3D computer vision, 2014

Secured a research contract of 100,000
Euro from Nokia and lead a research collaboration with Dr. Song-Chun Zhu from
University of California at Los Angles on computer vision, 2014

Secured a gift of $10,000 from
Nokia and structured collaboration with Interprofessional Projects Program
(IPRO) from Illinois Institute of Technology on an IPRO course development,
2013

Secured a gift of $10,000 from
Nokia and structured collaboration with Interprofessional Projects Program
(IPRO) from Illinois Institute of Technology on an IPRO course development,
2012

Secured a research contract of
$38,000 from Nokia and led a research collaboration with Dr. Gady Agam from
Illinois Institute of Technology on Building Completion, 2012

Secured a gift fund of $15,000
from Nokia and led a research collaboration with Dr. Gady Agam from Illinois
Institute of Technology on 3D Campus Mapping, 2011

Secured and structured a
research contract of $10,000 with Dr. Song-Chun Zhu from University of
California at Los Angeles on building and text extraction from street view
imagery, 2011

Secured and structured a
research contract of $12,000 with Dr. Song-Chun Zhu from University of
California at Los Angeles on face and license plate extraction from street view
imagery, 2010

Secured and structured a
research contract of $100,000 with Dr. Song-Chun Zhu from University of
California at Los Angeles on road sign extraction from street view imagery,
2010

Secured a gift fund of over
$60,000 from NAVTEQ and led a research collaboration with Dr. Takeo Kanade from
Carnegie Mellon University and Dr. James Wang from Penn State University on
Street View Scene Understanding, 2008

Secured a gift fund of over
$50,000 from NAVTEQ and led a research collaboration with Dr. Patrick Flynn
from University of Notre Dame on 3D LIDAR Mapping, 2008.

Federal Grant
Applications

NIST
Forensic Science Center of Excellence Program, 2014. Xin was a PI on behalf of
Northwestern University collaborating with other colleagues from Penn State
University.

NSF
III: Large: Collaborative Research: Dynamic Exploration of Evolving Semantics
Using Multimodal Heterogeneous Sensors, 2014. Xin was a co-PI on behalf of
Northwestern University collaborating with other colleagues from NWU, Rutgers
and NCSU.

Adaptive and collaborative 3D
reconstruction, recognition, and tracking of objects and activities using a
network of sensors, a white paper for Computational Methods for Decision Making
2011. Xin was a PI on behalf of NAVTEQ in collaboration with Illinois Institute
of Technology and University of Notre Dame.

Guidelines
for the Use of Mobile LIDAR in Transportation Applications, a proposal to TRB
NCHRP solicitation 2010. Xin was a PI on behalf of NAVTEQ in collaboration with
Dynasty Group, Inc.

Geo-referenced 3D Indoor
Mapping, a proposal to NIJ solicitation 2010. Xin was a PI on behalf of NAVTEQ
in collaboration with U. of Notre Dame.

3D Geo-reference Mapping, a
proposal to TSWG BAA 2009. Xin was a PI on behalf of NAVTEQ in collaboration
with U. of Notre Dame.

A Volumetric Approach to
LIDAR Denoising and Compression, a proposal to NURI 2009. Xin was a PI on
behalf of NAVTEQ in collaboration with U. of Wisconsin-Madison.